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> Winston Moseley is serving a life sentence for the killing of Kitty Genovese, the New York girl whose death in 1964 became celebrated because her screams for help were ignored by at least 38 neighbors. In 1968, while out of prison briefly for minor surgery in a Buffalo hospital, Moseley escaped from his guards and hid in a vacant house Neighbors telephoned Mr. and Mrs Matthew Kulaga, relatives of the owner, who came to investigate. Moseley captured the couple at gunpoint, raped Mrs. Kulaga and beat up her husband. Moseley was subsequently recaptured. The Kulagas sued—not Moseley, who hardly has assets to pay damages— but the state. Moseley's escape, they charged, was the result of negligence. A lower court was unimpressed, but the New York State Court of Appeals agreed; the state must now pay the Kulagas $60,000.